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Transportation

Martin Jacinto, Equipment Operator Specialist; Council 76, Colorado

Transportation workers represented by AFSCME keep America moving, ensuring that people and goods travel safely throughout the country. We design, build, maintain and operate our nation's streets, highways, airports, public transport, parking facilities and ports; keep buses and rapid transit trains rolling; plow roads; inspect bridges, highways and tunnels; and direct traffic.

Transportation Employees Online Network

Join your brothers and sisters in the AFSCME Transportation Employees Network. We’ll discuss shared concerns, learn about what’s going on around the country and exchange information and ideas.

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What's Hot

• Health Care for America: Which Side Are You On?
  Visit the new Health Care section of our website to learn about AFSCME’s plan to guarantee quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
• Road Privatization: Explaining the Trend, Assessing the Facts, and Protecting the Public
  U.S. PIRG Education Fund study finds that privatization of existing roads harms the long-term public interest.
• Highway Robbery II
  Report from the National Association of State Highway and Transportation Unions (NASHTU), details a growing array of problems – high costs, reduced project safety, and loss of public accountability -- resulting from state and local transportation agencies outsourcing engineering, construction inspection and project oversight on federally funded transportation projects.

In Action

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  Minnesota Bridge Inspector Calls for Increased Inspection and Maintenance Funding
  Bart Andersen told members of Congress this week that the state’s transportation system “is broken,” and urged lawmakers to support a new national bridge inspection and maintenance program.
• 400 Indianapolis First Student Workers Join AFSCME
  By an incredible 93 percent margin, nearly 400 Indianapolis public school bus drivers, monitors and mechanics have formed a union with AFSCME Council 62.
• Maine Bus Drivers Unionize with AFSCME
  Fifty Augusta school transportation workers are the latest employees of First Student Inc. to choose AFSCME as their union.
• Organizing: A Tale of Two Stewards
  Dean Vercruysse is a steward dynamo. Nancy Becker is a Local 1288 steward at the Manitowoc Health Care Center. She serves on Council 40's executive board.

Resources for Members

• Transportation Assets: Cash Cows?
  
• National Association of State Highway and Transportation Unions (NASHTU)
  
• Taking Them for a Ride: An Assessment of the Privatization of School Transportation in Ohio's Public School Districts
  This study examines the adverse outcomes resulting from the privatization of one school district’s busing system.

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